Marginal note:Effect
45 (1) The Hamburg Rules have the force of law in Canada in respect of contracts for the carriage of goods by water between different states as described in Article 2 of those Rules.
Marginal note:Extended application
(2) The Hamburg Rules also apply in respect of contracts for the carriage of goods by water from one place in Canada to another place in Canada, either directly or by way of a place outside Canada, unless the contract stipulates that those Rules do not apply.
Meaning of Contracting State
(3) For the purposes of this section, the expression Contracting State in Article 2 of the Hamburg Rules includes Canada and any state that gives the force of law to those Rules without being a Contracting State to the United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978.
Marginal note:References to “sea”
(4) For the purposes of this section, the word “sea” in the Hamburg Rules shall be read as “water”.
Marginal note:Signatures
(5) For the purposes of this section, paragraph 3 of article 14 of the Hamburg Rules applies in respect of the documents referred to in article 18 of those Rules.
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